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25 March, 2006

The Capitol Hill massacre occurs in Seattle, Washington. A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattles Capitol Hill neighborhood; it is one of the largest crime scenes the city has ever had.

25 March, 2006

Protesters demanding a re-election in Belarus following the rigged Belarusian presidential election, 2006 clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin was among several protesters arrested.

25 March, 1996

An 81-day-long standoff between the anti-government group Montana Freemen and law enforcement near Jordan, Montana, begins.

25 March, 1996

The Labour Party is founded in Turkey.

25 March, 1996

The EUs Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (BSE).

25 March, 1992

Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station.

25 March, 1990

In the Bronx, New York City, a fire at an illegal social club called "Happy Land" kills 87 people.

25 March, 1988

The Candle demonstration in Bratislava was the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.

25 March, 1979

The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.

25 March, 1975

Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew.

25 March, 1971

Bangladesh Liberation War: Beginning of Operation Searchlight of Pakistan Army against East Pakistani civilians.

25 March, 1969

During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace in the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).

25 March, 1965

Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery.

25 March, 1958

Canadas Avro Arrow makes its first flight.

25 March, 1957

The European Economic Community is established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg).

25 March, 1955

United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsbergs poem "Howl" as obscene.

25 March, 1949

The extensive deportation campaign known as March deportation was conducted in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to force collectivisation by way of terror. The Soviet authorities deported more than 92,000 people from Baltics to remote areas of the Soviet Union.

25 March, 1947

An explosion in a coalmine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.

25 March, 1941

Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact.

25 March, 1939

Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli becomes Pope Pius XII.

25 March, 1931

The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.

25 March, 1918

The Belarusian Peoples Republic was established.

25 March, 1917

The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.

25 March, 1911

In New York City the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.

25 March, 1908

Clube Atletico Mineiro, Founded in Belo Horizonte,Brazil.

25 March, 1903

Racing Club de Avellaneda, one of the big five of Argentina, was founded.

25 March, 1894

Coxeys Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C..

25 March, 1865

American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces capture Fort Stedman from the Union in a bloody battle.

25 March, 1821

(Julian Calendar) Greeks revolt against the Ottoman Empire, beginning the Greek War of Independence.

25 March, 1811

Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for his publication of the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.

25 March, 1807

The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.

25 March, 1807

The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, became the first passenger carrying railway in the world.

25 March, 1802

The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and United Kingdom.

25 March, 1655

Saturns largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christian Huygens.

25 March, 1655

Protestants take control of Maryland at the Battle of the Severn.

25 March, 1634

The first settlers arrive in Maryland.

25 March, 1584

Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to exploit Virginia.

25 March, 1409

The Council of Pisa opens.

25 March, 1306

Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scotland.

25 March, 1199

Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France which leads to his death on April 6.

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